Shell ReCharge....

It's about time it was made law or as a condition of planning permission that a charge point should accept all debit/credit card payments, contactless and/or with PIN.

Anyone ever get it setup. Seems the chargers only work with the card, but you can't order the card on the app.

I meant in Ireland.

I signed up for an account with them at least two years ago and they let me to do it with no payment method. For a long they would just email me an invoice and let me EFT the money to them. If I forgot, they would politely send me the same invoice several months later. They are the most financially relaxed CPO I've ever used. The amounts were all small and related to Aldi AC charging, maybe they have a different policy if you're charging a lot.

Redirects you to app. Catch 22. Came up on faceache from a new EV owner that there's no way to use Aldi chargers them, and I couldn't believe that. But it seems it's true

If there's one near you that you can't use you could update plugshare that these chargers are not usable.

Theres none near me, but one on a route I do rarely there's one with 9 plugs but no check-ins for a year and half. I guess we know why now .

They might work with a charge point card/app. The chargers come up in the app with charger no and provider correctly. I've ordered a card. Not sure if there's any in Dublin to test.

I just posted on the picture there, I've selected the Aldi in Santry. I've never used them but I can go and test there for you if you like. I have both chargepoint and plugsurfing cards

Managed to get one of the Aldi chargers working this evening with the charge point card but it was much more expensive. Adding on another 50%

Gonna be honest, my experience was that the app and card are both useless in Ireland

Tried starting both Ecars and Ionity chargers, literally 100% failure rate every time

Plugsurfing and Chargemap both worked here most of the time, but Shell never worked

I'd actually advise against having it as a backup since you'd want a backup to be reliable

Ah right, sorry I didn't realise we have any Shell chargers here

I think some of those chargers don't work right. The only one I could get to the work with the chargepoint card was the one at the side near the parent and child spaces. The ones along the back wall would flash but not charge

You'd almost think that Shell and Aldi are just installing chargers as some sort of greenwashing and have the resources to lose money on every installation

It may be a planning requirement for new stores.

You're right, they wouldn't be spending tens of thousands to do that in somewhere like Aldi Dunshaughlin car park, not to mention dozens of other insignificant locations, as it would be a horrendous waste of money and completely dreadful ROI if that was their intention.

There are far better and more influential ways to do that if that was their aim. Thankfully for them, I'm sure they have experts who are better at shaping attitudes and policies than something as daft as putting dodgy chargers in the corner of midlands supermarkets (which only serve to mildly irritate those who already have EVs), which even your average barstool moron EV commentator would have a hard time believing.